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By Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror)

Jacob had to start his talk without slides due to technical difficulties, but he did alright.

First off he talks about some treats against our privacy. Political plans for nation wide key escrow and wide scale data retention are popping up all over the western world.

The Australian web filter against child pornography has proven that these kind of filters don’t work. Before it was deployed nation wide the filter already succeeded in creeping its scope by blocking a dentists web site.

Jacob, personally, specifically cares about cases where Tor is used to censor people.Censorship will never serve humanity and in fact humanity becomes a slave to the truth of its sensors.

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The Tor project is a non-profit organization that has a full documented network that provides anonymity and privacy by design and is fully documented. Tor is funded by both the US DoD, EFF, Voice of America, Human Rights Watch, Google, NLnet, and you?

Tor is really a community of developers and volunteers and is still looking for developers and volunteers to enhance themselves.

Top countries in the world in bandwidth:
•    Germany
•    USA
•    Netherlands
•    France
•    Sweden

Anonymity means different things to different people:
•    Private citizens – Privacy
•    Government – Traffic analysis resistance
•    Human rights activists – Reachability
•    Businesses – Network Security

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